Le ministre de Wakefield
Subtitle: histoire
By: supposée écrite par lui-même
Contributors: Montesson, Charlotte-Jeanne Béraud de La Haie de Riou, marquise de, 1738-1806; Rose, Jean-Baptiste, 1714-1805
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, the Corvey Collection, 1790-1840
Publisher: Pissot; Desaint
Published: 1767
Place of publication: Londres; Paris
Language: fre
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Parochial Vicars; Fiction; Early works to 1800; Conduct of life; English fiction; Social life and customs
Work titles: Vicar of Wakefield
Description: Details the romantic intrigues in the family of a country vicar in eighteenth century England.
Notes: Small floral title vignettes; head- and tail-pieces.

"Avertissement de l'auteur": p. [3-4].

Pagination: v. 1: [4], 258 p.; v. 2: [2], 233, [3] p.

Signatures: v. 1: pi² A-K¹² L⁸ M¹; v. 2: pi¹ A-I¹² K¹⁰.

Includes table of contents.

Errors in paging: pp. 236-240 (v. 1) misnumbered 336-340, p. 183 numbered 383 (v. 2).

Translation of: The vicar of Wakefield.

First publication in French; translation has been attributed to C.J. Béraud de la Haie de Riou (the Marquise de Montesson) and Jean-Baptiste Rose, and to M. Charlos ("un avocat au parlement de Paris"). Cf. M. Brix. Répertoire des traducteurs, in "Patrimoine littéraire européen," v. 9, p. 995; Quérard; ESTC.

Probably printed in Paris. Cf. ESTC.

A novel.

Lesta Ford Clay (Mrs. Albert G. Clay); gift; 1942.